By Schubert Ogden
Justice Holmes speaks of men's possibly coming to believe "even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct." But what is to be understood by "the very foundations of \ [one's\] own conduct"? Wiki Markup
I answer: the very foundations of one's own conduct are one's self-understanding, or understanding of existence, together with the beliefs, practical as well as theoretical, that it necessarily implies.
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